WhatsApp now lets you make calls using its web app
WhatsApp calls have been for years only supported on the smartphone app or its…
I make over $250k as a Meta AI researcher. Publishing research helped me land the job.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ruiyu Li, a 26-year-old AI…
Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model
Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton computer science professor, noted that there is good evidence that…
In internal meeting, Amazon cloud executive asked employees to recruit laid off Meta workers
AWS CMO asked staff to help fill open roles, including by recruiting recently laid-off…
WhatsApp usernames are already raising impersonation red flags
The rollout marks a shift in how people identify one another on WhatsApp. Instead…
Meta now alerts parents if their teen discussed suicide or self-harm with its AI chatbot
Additionally, Meta says it will contact emergency services if someone's conversation with Meta AI,…
Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases
Meta, considered a bit of a straggler in the AI harnesses realm, is making…
Meta agrees to settle teen addiction lawsuit for up to $16.7 billion
Some changes are coming for teen users of Meta platforms.The owner of Facebook and…
Parents loved sharing photos of their kids online. Then came AI.
The parenting debate about how much to share photos of kids is changing because…
Meta quietly launches a new Reddit-like app called Forum
Meta has quietly released a new standalone app for Facebook Groups, called "Forum." The…
Social media’s next evolution: user-controlled algorithms
For years, social media giants controlled what users saw in their feeds. While people…
A Wyoming city found a rare bacterium in wastewater tied to a Meta data center
Officials in the city of Cheyenne, Wyoming, say a massive, under-construction Meta data center…
Meta drops out of a major clean energy pact as its natural gas buildout accelerates
Meta isn't alone in pursuing natural gas — both Google and Microsoft have recently…
Meta launches Muse Glimmer model as Zuckerberg champions AI for ‘everyone’
Mark Zuckerberg is launching a new AI model and a vision for a more…
Buried in Meta’s $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids’ data
In addition to paying out up to $18 billion and adding child safety measures,…
Meta’s targeted baby ads are like ‘a cot in your front room’, say grieving parents
Michelle Welsh The government's new maternity adviser is calling on Meta to meet bereaved…
